Afghan, Quilt or Blanket?

We try to answer the question as to whether students special treasure is an afghan, quilt or blanket as we play the game 20 questions to learn about it.  Then we have few minutes of sharing before we dive into the measuring our our quilts.

We have practices measuring length, width and area using non-standard tools for measurement.  Our favorite job is measuring the area because we measure how many kindergartners fit in the area of our blanket!

Then we create new, paper quilts for each other.  In addition to looking colorful and showing that we can follow the pattern and directions, we are learning new things about each other. 

As you will see, the quilt projects are the highlight of our news this week too!

This has been a fun project for the week.  Next week will hope to finish looking at the rest of the treasures.